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Instituce a osobnosti ruské meziválečné emigrace v Československu

Stoletá válka

Boris Bove presents the Hundred Years’ War as a mental construct, which strives to conceptually grasp the repeated conflicts between the ...

Rus v období smuty očima švédského špiona

This book presents an original historical source, entitled “An erudite and true narration of some changes that recently took place in the...

Zpráva Petra Petreia z roku 1608

Passionate Copying in Late Medieval Bohemia

This book presents a detailed case study of Crux de Telcz (1434–1504), illustrating the complexity of the manuscript culture of the secon...

The Case of Crux de Telcz (1434–1504)

Otisky sametové revoluce

This book is a collection of texts that try to reflect the legacy of the events of 1989 thirty years later. This context motivated the gr...

Kde přebývá devětaosmdesátý

Rus – Ukraine – Russia

An outspoken opponent of pro-Russian, authoritarian, and far-right streams in contemporary Czech society, Martin C. Putna received a grea...

Scenes from the Cultural History of Russian Religiosity

Vězení jako zrcadlo společnosti

The Czechoslovak penitentiary system underwent significant changes during the second half of the 20th century. Repression and dehumanizat...

Nerovný souboj vědy, politiky a humanity 1965–1992

„Práce šlechtí!“

Using the example of “labor services” as a worldwide method of handling unemployment among young people during economic crises, this book...

Sudetoněmecká dobrovolná pracovní služba v meziválečném Československu

Panovnická reprezentace v písemné kultuře ve středověku

On the occasion of the 90th birthday of Professor Ivan Hlaváček, 25 Czech and foreign researchers explored different forms of sovereign r...

Sborník prací k životnímu jubileu profesora Ivana Hlaváčka

Strategická obranná iniciativa

In the 1980s, Ronald Reagan’s administration introduced an (old) new topic into the global politics: the development of a missile defense...

Zlatý nosorožec

Linking the Middle Ages and Sub-Saharan Africa sounds unusual to Czech readers as there have not been many books presenting the riches of...

Příběhy o africkém středověku

Majstr a Małgorzata

This study addresses one of partial political and economic phenomena of the postwar period – labor migration in a socialist society. It f...

Polky v továrnách ČSSR